Concerts

We’re sure you enjoyed our Q&A with Vaughn Harris of Nitzer Ebb last week. But maybe you were wondering why we didn’t ask him about that one b-side off the band’s second single, or why they never remixed Madonna, or how much practice it took to perfect those pouty/scary looks…

Puscifer, Uncle Scratch’s Gospel’s Revival Saturday, November 21, 2009 Paramount Theatre Better than: Watching old reruns of Hee Haw. It would have been hard to predict the format and content of Saturday night’s Puscifer show based solely on the outfit’s studio recordings. A side project of Tool frontman Maynard James…

Sun Circle, Epileptinomicon, Temples, Sterile Garden and nervesandgel Friday, November 20th, 2009 Glob Better Than: A noise show comprised entirely of purist noise projects. Epileptinomicon opened the show with just Mike Reisinger feeding his vocals through a series of effects pedals into the PA. The result was an amplified white…

We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we’ve decided to run down three of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what we missed in the…

Some quick news bites from the local scene…Oh my!: Recognize these striking dames? Yeah, us neither. That boa helmet and weird, red, veil, feathery thing kind of obscures any chance we have any sort of face recognition. This pic was snapped a few nights ago at mtvU’s Woodie Awards, which…

Mama mia!: Mama, the outfit led by frontman Jeff Leonetti and Jonny Barber (aka Chris Barber, frontman of Spiv and the Velvet Elvis), has signed a distribution deal with Steve Vai’s Digital Nations imprint. The label, an offshoot of Vai’s Favored Nations, will handle worldwide distribution of Bayoutopia, the act’s…

In response to an overwhelming demand from fans looking to pitch in after yesterday’s news that the annual fall Festival is struggling financially, Monolith organizers have set up a Kickstarter account and have set an initial two-week goal of raising $38,000 in donations towards an overall goal of $200,000 to…

In the beginning, there was the sample. And the love of that sample led directly to the creation of pH10, an electronic outfit with a hard-edged sound and a long, storied history. “Wax Trax proved to me that electronic-based music could be as heavy as the punk rock and metal…

On Halloween, three people were shot outside Posh Ultra Nightclub (4040 East Evans Avenue); one, John Singleton, died a few days later. The following Saturday was quiet at the club, with maybe twenty people scattered through the multi-level space, which was previously Midtown Beat, and the Deadbeat Club before that…

Playing unvarnished, catchy tunes as though there had never been any interruption in the development of that strain of punk called riot grrrl, Lust-Cats of the Gutters (due Wednesday, November 25, at Denver Creative Co-Op Studio, 425 Lincoln Street) sound like the Shaggs without the perversely eccentric sense of melody…

Looking for a shovel to bury the Aughts with? Millions of Brazilians seem happy to oblige; just do us all a favor and throw the band into the grave along with the decade it so laughably typifies. Sounding like a factory reject of the Killers, the Bravery and Franz Ferdinand,…

Not to be confused with fellow art-folk group Vetiver, Washington, D.C.’s Vandaveer sports a smokier yet more straightforward sound that feels born and bred in the back room of some bohemian cafe. And while that may sound like damnation with faint praise, Vandaveer manages to stagger between Tom Waits rasp…

At first glance, people may have a hard time distinguishing Vancouver’s Japandroids from Brooklyn’s Japanther. Both are stripped-down, two-piece, lo-fi garage-rock bands whose members share vocal duties, and both have a certain kinship with the Land of the Rising Sun. Musically, though, Japandroids offer more depth and passion, making them…

London’s Big Pink borrowed its name from the Band’s classic debut album and set about producing music possessed of vast, swirling horizons and heady dynamics. The record’s introspective, declarative lyrics are like beacons in the hazy early-morning soundscape. In that respect, the Big Pink is reminiscent of British dream-pop bands…

With pop punk having pretty much become a parody of itself these days, it’s difficult to be surprised by anything that anyone playing that kind of music has to offer. So how is it that a bunch of kids from Seattle got together to form a melodic, poppy punk band…

You won’t like Vultures if you can’t get past its throaty, nearly screamo vocals or the alloy of hardcore and thrash and lyrics that read like an unabashed screed against society’s ills and personal angst. If, however, you want to hear a record in which a band displays dynamic shifts…

Putting your heart on your sleeve is one thing — but Fort Collins’s A Melodic Daydream takes it a big step further. Fronted by the songwriting couple LnZ Kaid and Chris Newton, the group has packed its new eight-song disc, A Little Weird, with more unabashed emotion than most emo…

If you walk into a restaurant and it’s live-music Friday and the Alltunators are playing, you should feel pretty good about that. Their presence will enhance your meal, and they may put just enough hootenanny in your heart to compel you to throw a buck in their tip jar at…

Once a trio churning out reverb-drenched, Stray Cats-infused rockabilly, the Mighty Eighteen Wheeler has gotten progressively heavier with each album. On 2006’s Charmed Life, the guys turned up the distortion and steered more into Reverend Horton Heat territory. Now a four-piece led by Halden Wofford, the band kicks up another…

Maynard James Keenan describes a show by Puscifer, arguably the oddest sibling in a family of Keenan-connected bands that includes Tool and A Perfect Circle, as a theatrical experience that’s carefully planned in advance — for the most part. “We want to make sure that some stuff is solid, some…